The Portland daily press., 1887-11-26

Rev. Samuel Longfellow was in town yes
terday.
Mr.. J. ST. Maur. agent for Lolita, was in
town last evening.
Mr.. Walter Il. Dana of Boston passed
Thanksgiving with his family in this city.
Judge Woodbury. of Boston passed Thanks
giving with Hon. A. W. II. Clapp.
Morrill, Goddard of the New York World
was in the city Thanksgiving.
Rev. S. G. Hanscomb. of Bucksport East
Maine Conference, who is visiting friends in
this city. will occupy the pulpit of Congress
street Methodist church Sunday morning.
Mr.. j. NJ. S. Hunter, of the Harrington
Chronicle, and Mrs, Hunter, are at the Fal-
mouth Hotel. Mr.. Hunter is looking we'll as
all his friends will be glad to know.
The funeral of the late Francois Radoux
will occur this afternoon at O'Clock at No. 2
Bramhall street. The Aged Brotherhood are
invited to attend.
David Loring of Auburn celebrated his
Goth birthday on Tuesday. A large party of
the friends Of Mr.. and Mrs. Loring paid them
visit and helped make the day enjoyable.
E. B. Mallett, Jr., of Freeport, was lost in
on hunting expedition. On account of the
exposure he has been very sick but is now
thought to be better.
Hon. James w. Bradbury gave nearly one
hundred turkeys, with accessories, to the
poor of Augusta on Thanksgiving Day. Mrs.
Daniel Williams saw that the prisoners in
the county jail did not have to do without
mince pie.
John G. Gerry, Esq. brother Of Hon. FL
bridge Gerry of this city, died in South Wat
erford last week. In 1872 and 1873 he was
engaged in the marble business, on Congress
street, in this city, the firm being Gerry g.
Turner
Rev. Joseph S. Cogswell, of the Presbyte-
rian church in this city, is cousin of Long
John" Wentworth, the millionaire of Chica-
go, and second cousin of Col Thomas Cogs-
well, well known Grand Army man of New
Hampshire. Rev. Mr.. Cogswell breaches In
Williams Hall tomorrow.
A young Maine sailor, Captain Albert f.
Pillsbury, of Rockland. has surprised the
wise men of the Board of United States In
spectors at New York. He came up for ex-
animation as to his qualifications to command
steamers in the merchant service. The Rock
land Free Press says that at the beginning of
his examination the Inspectors were stag
gered by his age, which is only twenty-three
years; but after a thorough examination,
and in consideration of his former successful
service as master mariner, he was given a
full certificate of ability to command any
coasting or ocean steamer of the United
States merchant marine. He was also espe-
cially complimented by the Inspectors, who
believe him to be the youngest person in the
United States who holds like certificate.
Prof. Arthur B. Morrill, of New Britain,
Conn, gave an interesting lecture upon
ELECTRICITY" accompanying the same with
brilliant experiments, in the Sweetser Fund
course, at the Town Hall, Wakefield, Mass
Wednesday evening Prof. Morrill, and wife
passed their Thanksgiving in Portland.
The Southing Cultiyator and Dixie Farmer
has this pleasant notice of the Master of the
Maine State Grange: ''Ex-Gov. Frederick
ROBBIE, the efficient Master of the Maine State
Grange, is worker everywhere you place
him, be it the National, the State or the
home Grange. Haywood Grange at Gorham
where he resides, has added fifty new mem
bers this year, and photograph in the Guilt
vator Office shows nearly two hundred mem
beers on parade in the Sesqui- Centennial Of
that venerable town. No new-fangled ideas
can deplete such grange as this or circum-
scribe its circle of Influence for good among
the farmers"